Providian fetches $6.45B
San Francisco credit-card issuer Providian Financial agreed to a takeover by Washington Mutual of Seattle, the nation’s largest savings and loan, in a cash and stock deal valued at $6.45 billion, the firms said …
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(AFX UK Focus) 2005-06-15 01:50 GMT: Japan's top 4 banks raising first-half new mortgage lending by 10 pct -report (Interactive Investor) TOKYO (AFX) - Japan's four largest banks are expanding housing loans, with combined new mortgage lending in the April-September period expected to increase by more than 10 pct from a
Weekly mortgage payments don't make sense It's the extra principal you pay that makes the difference, Dr. Don says.via
Mortgage lenders should stop ripping off borrowers with huge charges, says Darling (Daily Mail) Alistair Darling today warned mortgage lenders not to rip off borrowers with huge arrangement fees and is in talks over what level of charges are justified.read more...
Mortgage lending rise matches 2-yr high-BBA (Reuters.co.uk) LONDON (Reuters) - The rise in underlying net mortgage lending matched May's two-year high in July, data showed on Friday, supporting other surveys depicting a robust housing market before this
S. Tier follows national housing trend One of the benefits of living in smaller cities such as Elmira and Corning is that it usually takes a while to feel the impact of national economic trends.read more...
USA Commercial Mortgage Company Reports Progress in Chapter 11 Reorganization Efforts (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) USA Commercial Mortgage Company today announced significant progress in the efforts made by USACM and its affiliated bankruptcy debtors to reorganize under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code